Documents/GAO2010/1: Wellbeing and Financial Security/1.1.7: Health Care Quality

1.1.7: Health Care Quality

Evaluate the effectiveness of federal programs to promote, protect, and ensure the quality of health care

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Key Efforts: Assess the regulatory structure for „„ensuring the safety and efficacy of medical devices, drugs, and other medical products and therapies and impediments and barriers to the development of new prescription drugs and vaccines. Evaluate efficiency and effectiveness „„of public health agency programs and operations. Evaluate federal efforts to ensure health „„care quality. Examine the use of health IT and its „„effects on the costs and quality of care. Evaluate the effectiveness of programs „„to provide prevention, treatment, and other services related to mental health conditions, including substance abuse.

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